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[Congressional Bills 109th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. Res. 300 Agreed to Senate (ATS)]

109th CONGRESS
  1st Session
S. RES. 300

  Relative to the death of Henry Ku'ualoha Giugni, former Sergeant-at-
                   Arms of the United States Senate.

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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                            November 3, 2005

Mr. Inouye (for himself, Mr. Akaka, Mr. Byrd, Mr. Frist, Mr. Reid, Mr. 
 Alexander, Mr. Allard, Mr. Allen, Mr. Baucus, Mr. Bayh, Mr. Bennett, 
   Mr. Biden, Mr. Bingaman, Mr. Bond, Mrs. Boxer, Mr. Brownback, Mr. 
Bunning, Mr. Burns, Mr. Burr, Ms. Cantwell, Mr. Carper, Mr. Chafee, Mr. 
  Chambliss, Mrs. Clinton, Mr. Coburn, Mr. Cochran, Mr. Coleman, Ms. 
Collins, Mr. Conrad, Mr. Cornyn, Mr. Corzine, Mr. Craig, Mr. Crapo, Mr. 
Dayton, Mr. DeMint, Mr. DeWine, Mr. Dodd, Mrs. Dole, Mr. Domenici, Mr. 
Dorgan, Mr. Durbin, Mr. Ensign, Mr. Enzi, Mr. Feingold, Mrs. Feinstein, 
Mr. Graham, Mr. Grassley, Mr. Gregg, Mr. Hagel, Mr. Harkin, Mr. Hatch, 
Mrs. Hutchison, Mr. Inhofe, Mr. Isakson, Mr. Jeffords, Mr. Johnson, Mr. 
 Kennedy, Mr. Kerry, Mr. Kohl, Mr. Kyl, Ms. Landrieu, Mr. Lautenberg, 
Mr. Leahy, Mr. Levin, Mr. Lieberman, Mrs. Lincoln, Mr. Lott, Mr. Lugar, 
 Mr. Martinez, Mr. McCain, Mr. McConnell, Ms. Mikulski, Ms. Murkowski, 
Mrs. Murray, Mr. Nelson of Florida, Mr. Nelson of Nebraska, Mr. Obama, 
  Mr. Pryor, Mr. Reed, Mr. Roberts, Mr. Rockefeller, Mr. Salazar, Mr. 
  Santorum, Mr. Sarbanes, Mr. Schumer, Mr. Sessions, Mr. Shelby, Mr. 
 Smith, Ms. Snowe, Mr. Specter, Ms. Stabenow, Mr. Stevens, Mr. Sununu, 
   Mr. Talent, Mr. Thomas, Mr. Thune, Mr. Vitter, Mr. Voinovich, Mr. 
 Warner, and Mr. Wyden) submitted the following resolution; which was 
                        considered and agreed to

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                               RESOLUTION

 
  Relative to the death of Henry Ku'ualoha Giugni, former Sergeant-at-
                   Arms of the United States Senate.

Whereas Henry Ku'ualoha Giugni was born on January 11, 1925, in Honolulu, 
        Hawai'i;
Whereas Henry Giugni served with distinction in the United States Army, after 
        enlisting at the age of 16 after the attacks on Pearl Harbor, and served 
        in combat at the Battle of Guadalcanal during World War II;
Whereas Henry Giugni began his service in the Senate in 1963 as Senior Executive 
        Assistant and Chief of Staff to Senator Daniel K. Inouye;
Whereas Henry Giugni served as Sergeant-at-Arms from 1987 until 1990;
Whereas Henry Giugni was the first person of color and first Polynesian to be 
        appointed to be the Sergeant-at-Arms;
Whereas Henry Giugni promoted minorities and women by appointing the first 
        minority, an African American, to lead the Sergeant-at-Arms' Service 
        Department, and was the first to assign women to the Capitol Police 
        plainclothes unit;
Whereas Henry Giugni's special interest in people with disabilities resulted in 
        a major expansion of the Special Services Office, which now conducts 
        tours of the U.S. Capitol for the blind, deaf, and wheelchair-bound, and 
        publishes Senate maps and documents in Braille;
Whereas in 2003, Henry Giugni received an Honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters 
        from the University of Hawai'i at Hilo in recognition of his 
        extraordinary contributions to Hawai'i and the Nation;
Whereas Henry Giugni carried Hawai'i's flag while marching with Dr. Martin 
        Luther King for civil rights in Selma, Alabama;
Whereas Henry Giugni presided over the inauguration of President George H.W. 
        Bush, and escorted numerous foreign dignitaries, including Nelson 
        Mandela, Margaret Thatcher, and Vaclav Havel when they visited the 
        United States Capitol; and
Whereas on November 3, 2005, Henry Giugni passed away at the age of 80: Now, 
        therefore, be it
    Resolved, That the Senate has heard with profound sorrow and deep 
regret the announcement of the death of Henry Giugni.
    Resolved, That the Secretary of the Senate communicate these 
resolutions to the House of Representatives and transmit an enrolled 
copy thereof to the family of the deceased.
    Resolved, That when the Senate adjourns today, it stand adjourned 
as a further mark of respect to the memory of Henry Giugni.
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